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There are over 12,000 days in the winter record at DCA. Here are the top 10 daily precipitation amounts:

12-18-1977: 2.81"

01-12-1915: 2.77"

12-29-1901: 2.57"

12-17-1888: 2.43"

12-13-1909: 2.43"

12-24-1986: 2.36"

02-06-1896: 2.29"

01-04-1886: 2.28"

02-22-2003: 2.27"

12-10-1878: 2.23"

No temperatures below freezing, and no recorded snowfall in the bunch. There was snow on the ground in 2003 from PDII.

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There are over 12,000 days in the winter record at DCA. Here are the top 10 daily precipitation amounts:

12-18-1977: 2.81"

01-12-1915: 2.77"

12-29-1901: 2.57"

12-17-1888: 2.43"

12-13-1909: 2.43"

12-24-1986: 2.36"

02-06-1896: 2.29"

01-04-1886: 2.28"

02-22-2003: 2.27"

12-10-1878: 2.23"

No temperatures below freezing, and no recorded snowfall in the bunch. There was snow on the ground in 2003 from PDII.

It's pretty shocking.. winter has such low water content compared to the rest of the months. I would never have thought we'd actually near 3" in one day.

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I'm usually the one leading the charge not to radar hallucinate and freak out about the back edge, but there is no real silver lining here....the back edge is racing...I don't really see the ULL saving us this time....so I think 11-midnight west to east finish is pretty much it...maybe even over before?....so really the narrative has been that the cold air is arriving too late and that is still the narrative for most of us.....I don't think there will be some huge delay in changover though...once IAD/Tysons goes to snow, DC shouldnt be far behind

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I'm usually the one leading the charge not to radar hallucinate and freak out about the back edge, but there is no real silver lining here....the back edge is racing...I don't really see the ULL saving us this time....so I think 11-midnight west to east finish is pretty much it...maybe even over before?....so really the narrative has been that the cold air is arriving too late and that is still the narrative for most of us.....I don't think there will be some huge delay in changover though...once IAD/Tysons goes to snow, DC shouldnt be far behind

there's nothing really to hold it back and the vort is ever weakening.. not the best for back-end lovin'.

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There are over 12,000 days in the winter record at DCA. Here are the top 10 daily precipitation amounts:

12-07-2011: 2.83" and counting

12-18-1977: 2.81"

01-12-1915: 2.77"

12-29-1901: 2.57"

12-17-1888: 2.43"

12-13-1909: 2.43"

12-24-1986: 2.36"

02-06-1896: 2.29"

01-04-1886: 2.28"

02-22-2003: 2.27"

12-10-1878: 2.23"

No temperatures below freezing, and no recorded snowfall in the bunch. There was snow on the ground in 2003 from PDII.

And with the SPECI METAR, the record is broken.

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I'm usually the one leading the charge not to radar hallucinate and freak out about the back edge, but there is no real silver lining here....the back edge is racing...I don't really see the ULL saving us this time....so I think 11-midnight west to east finish is pretty much it...maybe even over before?....so really the narrative has been that the cold air is arriving too late and that is still the narrative for most of us.....I don't think there will be some huge delay in changover though...once IAD/Tysons goes to snow, DC shouldnt be far behind

Yes, the short range modeling has been suggesting a midnight or slightly before that shutoff of the precip. We have been destined to get only a short period of snow.

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It's pretty shocking.. winter has such low water content compared to the rest of the months. I would never have thought we'd actually near 3" in one day.

I know we all wanted snow, but I think it is good to take a larger look at this storm and recognize how impressive it was. The big precip record, a beautiful radar, winds picking up from almost nothing to a 40mph gust at DCA. Some cool stuff.

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